It’s Steve Stockman Day at the Beauty Salon!
He wins. Steve Stockman wins.
First we get him defeated at the voting booth. Then we indict him. But, bygawd, this is one libertarian/conservative who wins the prize.
Stockman spent his congressional career stomping and yelling about the damn government. He wanted the government out of everything. No government means good government.
Uh, until now. He appeared in court yesterday and told the judge he only has $17 in his bank account so he can’t afford a lawyer. He can’t work either since his job requires him to travel out of the country but he can’t do that while he’s out on bond.
The guy stole close to $1.2 million of charitable contributions. He’s a scam artist. But, he’s a master at scam artistry because he told the judge ….
Stockman told the judge he needed to dismiss his hand-picked lawyers from the elite firm of Smyser Kaplan & Veselka and ideally he wanted the court to re-appoint them to the case at the government’s expense. She said she’d consider the request.
She’d consider it? Wait, wait, every other defendant in the courtroom gets what they get from the public defender system, but this guy wants us to pay for his fancy-pants hand-picked white collar crime law firm? Oh hell, no.
So overnight this guy goes from wanting to destroy the government to wanting to buy lobster with food stamps, something he used to accuse others of doing?
Stockman admits that he owns a house, rental property, two vans and his wife makes $72 grand a year. He can pay his lawyer.
I hate Republicans. I really do.
OT say hello to new justice plagiarizer GoSuck.
Stockman’s judge a wingnut pick or just a wingnut electee?
1Best proof ever of the the adage, “A Liberal is a Conservative who has been indicted.”
2Hot damn, get that boy Austin Pendleton’s phone number!
“I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve played one in the movies.”
3I’m gonna take a guess, but the hourly rate for government paid representation by Smyser Kaplan & Veselka would probably cover quite a few food stamp recipients for a long, long time. Lobster wielding or not.
4Is it beyond Stevie’s capacity to learn a few few new phrases such as “Would you like fries with your burger?” Is he too good to pick up a mop, or to thick to understand ” clean up on aisle six” ?
5When will conservatives take some responsibility for their own lives?
What I have to say about this would not pass Momma’s muster.
6I’m hoping that the judge, after careful consideration, tells Mr. Stockman that the public defender’s office is good enough for capital murder cases, so it’s good enough for grifters.
7Having been a public defender, I must share this story. With a client in a court somewhere in New Mexico, the client said, “My real lawyer said…” That’s as far as he got when the judge went off on him big time about how good public defenders are how much more courtroom experience they have compared to the normal private lawyer. That was one time I exercised my right to be silent,
8Good story Paul.
I’d say a PD is too good for that sleezeball. He can have whatever attys he and the Mrs. can afford.
9I’m happy to see Stockman taking a hard fall. His entire political career was based on grandstanding and telling his constituents whatever he thought they wanted to hear. I always found it ironic that the government he claimed he wanted to destroy paid his salary and provided him thousands in benefits. I don’t care that he can’t continue to pay his private lawyer, and I find it highly amusing that he needs the government he alleged/s to hate to provide him with a court-appointed attorney. You cannot make this stuff up.
10Paul –
11I’m sure you maintained your composure better than the defendant’s wife did, after he let slip about something about what “my real love said…”
Goes to prove that truth really is stranger than fiction. Stockman deserves to be in the prison system for many a year. Republicans must be the most evil, soulless, immoral f**ks (sorry Momma, couldn’t clean it up) on the planet. At least the Assads, Putins admit what they are. The rethugs are the worst kind of hypocrites. They scream Christian values then act like the worst kind of evil.
12It just never ends with these right-wing Bible thumpers, does it? I need some word that goes beyond hate. Loathing, maybe? Whatever it is, that’s how I feel about them.
And speaking of soulless *@*%s, here’s our disgusting governor: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/03/30/gov-greg-abbotts-hard-line-immigration-stand-swell-foster-care-rolls
13Oh fer . . . . . sake! Yeah, he can ask but it is the government who would actually make the decision as to whether or not it would pick up the tab for the fancy shmancy lawyers. Of course Stockman most likely does not know that or he has been very poorly advised on the subject, probably by someone who really, really does not like him!
14Is that Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, as in former Harris County Democrats chairman Larry Veselka?
15Yep. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/12/us/texas-democrats-are-out-to-hogtie-an-unwanted-party-chairman.html
I imagine he doesn’t come cheap.
16How much money does his wife have in her account?
17Sounds like Stockman has already expended his weekly allowance.
Thanks for the history lesson Ms Juanita, I might add that Larry Veselka once ran to rescue the party after the Executive Committee elected a transsexual convicted murderer as Chairman.
18Any chance he’ll end up in one of those privatized, for-profit prisons that cut prisoner treatment to the bone in order to maximize profits?
Karma says yes.
19His fancy lawyers aren’t going to take the case unless the new guy needs something to chew on for a while! The reimbursement rate for public defenders is abysmally low!
20@Debbo#9- That would be in line with the conservative( republican) principle that one is entitled to all the justice they can afford. I didn’t do the research, but,I wonder if this guy is connected, in any way to Tom De Lay? They were both federal congresscritters from that “hole other country”.It seems unlikely they did not imbibe from the same bottle and take away some of the same learning.
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